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RE: Some Whales are Abusing their Power with Downvotes
I was going to cash out alts to go all in on Steem Power, but now after reading this I may pull back. I think everything should be a measured response in Cryptos, and having god-like powers to hurt other's creativity seems like it could corrupt the entire system :/
We have to remember this is beta as well but the current structure is giving too much power to the top.
It's "almost" like an active Yelp reviewer that has actual dollar power in their voting and in just a few clicks of a button they can mass 1 star a chain of restaurants in one go simply because he didn't like they the way they are pulling in customers.
do you really think whales want to shoot their own foot?
believe me that is not our intention. Think outside the box...maybe then you will see the glass half full...
I didn't until I saw what you did. If it's not your intention then don't go after people trying to be creative with faucet games which are totally acceptable. And much better controlled within the community the outside the community.
You may not like them but you are judge & jury. And just saying you are protecting the community is just a way to make it look like your decisions are just when in this case they are not.
....as said if it was from a confirmed trusted member I wouldn't make such a deal of it...
We are talking about a one 1 week account (Created 2016-07-24T08:19:12 - https://steemd.com/@miketr ) that are asking for votes/money without even an introduceyourself post where he could give a basic id proof of his self!
Ah so the unwritten rule is that a person must present themselves before king's court to introduce himself. It's honestly crap and it's been proven that some of these introductions are just made up.
I'd much rather see him slowly prove himself through his actions over time which he has been doing. And he isn't asking for money out of pocket. He's just paying from his balance that he's put in himself (because up until round 4 it never made money which it was close to doing until you squashed it). And I don't think you get the fee, t's not like some nigeria scam thing where people have to pay up front to get paid. He's just saying that he will use 10% for admin fees.
He's been giving away 0.02 SD to each person that voted and commented, but if the value goes up then he'll up the amount.
I just saw yesterday some giving a Solar coins for voting and commenting with an address. A new person but I took the high risk (NOT!)of voting and commenting, and sure enough 12 hours later the person sent me some solar coin.
I think when advertisers start coming on here there will be a ton of creative ways people will be pulling people to their posts with SD$ or other means. And there is nothing wrong with this. But in the case someone does abuse users then we can go after them but pre judging all new users as potential scammers is quite the elitist view steam power has bestowed on you.
One week is not my treshold
And because this system think that your minds option means so much that everyone else's then you get to just run down his list of posts and down vote them in one swoop. It's a low blow to not even give the guy a chance simply because you find newbies not worthy of your trust.
The money that will be summed up is money from the SP holders pocket practically, I hope you understand it.
It's to late when abuse/theft etc. already happened...
It is a new user that asks to manage funds that he wants to collect them from "whales" to redistribute them... All new users are not asking for that on our platform!!! At least build first your reputation (one week account? common!) and then go for it!
It was only small numbers and like anything he was building up his reputation little by little. And proving he was fair even when he didn't make a profit.
So one week is too little in liondani's point of view but when is someone have earned a rep. What is it two, three weeks - a month or two? And then what happens with the next guy that has a lot of steem power says "nah I still don't think it's long enough"
I can see you kicking the kids off the street corner in your neighborhood for trying to sell lemonade. "I can't trust you kids. Come back when you have more sales experience"
I just downvoted his lotto/faucet related posts. It is not my fault he has so much and that kind of content... (spam?)
There are no rules against those post an you just deem it unacceptable. You are the central reason this whole thing happened and I would even waste my time with someone like you but unfortunately this system has you believing your opinion matter over everyone else and it gives you the authority to take a dump on an ideas you think aren't worthy. It's far from spam and just your excuse.